Posted on January 20, 2011 - by Team blur

Crowdsourced Aid Agency Powers Charity through Social Networks

Can Crowdsourcing change The World? It just might…

Get It Done are a Crowdsourced aid agency, whose mantra is to bring the personal connection back to giving aid. Get It Done aim to, as they put it, ‘bring aid back to where it once started: as the basic human activity of taking care of the people you are connected to’.

They do this by utilising the huge scope of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, allowing users to set up their own aid projects. Each selected project is given a webpage and a widget, with users able to put their widget, or the widget of a project they support, on their social network page and share with friends. Once placed, the widget functions as a ‘window’ through which users can communicate and will be updated about their project’s progress. The widget also enables donations to be made easily and free of any charge. As Get It Done put it, ‘No middlemen, no fees’.

Get It Done has the potential to move the goal posts of giving aid, making the whole process more personal and relevant to the individual. It will enable smaller, less publicised causes to gain a much wider press and greater raise the money neccesary to fulfil their objectives. Using social media in such a way means G.I.D can Crowdsource the opinions of individuals, finding out the causes that are relevant to various areas, age groups, genders and so on. It will give each individual a voice and could lead to a new, digital led, wave of fund raisers and humanitarians.

A very noble Crowdsourcing company.

To read more about Get It Done and the causes they are highlighting, go their website here.